title: [Qualitative translational science in clinical practice].
abstract: Qualitative translational research refers to the "bench-to-bedside" enterprise of harnessing knowledge from the basic sciences to produce new treatment options or nursing interventions for patients. Three evidence-based translational problems related to qualitative translational research discussed this year address the interfaces among the nursing paradigm, the basic sciences, and clinical nursing work. This article illustrates the definition of translational science and translational blocks of evidence-based practice; discusses the qualitative research perspective in evidence synthesis, evidence translation and evidence utilization; and discusses the research questions that must be answered to solve the problems of the three translational gaps from the qualitative research perspective. Qualitative inquiry has an essential role to play in efforts to improve current healthcare-provider nursing interventions, experiences, and contexts. Thus, it is vital to introduce qualitative perspectives into evidence-based practice from the knowledge discovery through to the knowledge implementation process.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical and Community Health Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC. peifan@ym.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Pei-Fan
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Mu
mesh_terms: D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D006801:Humans; D036301:Qualitative Research; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical
keywords: evidence-based practice; qualitative research; translational research